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SECRET AGENT CHILD: You'll never look at Mastering the Art of French Cooking the same way again
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Who knew that the kindly cooking maven Julia Child was likely dishing up far spicer fare than bouillabase and pate throughout her career? The personnel files from the National Archives released earlier today show that Chef Child worked as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. The OSS was the forerunner of today's CIA.
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Child's 2007 memoir, My Life in France (which she wrote with her grandnephew Alex Prud'homme) had already revealed the undercover World War II hijinks she had been up to when she wasn't beating egg whites, but the release of the previously classified personnel files has relit the flame under that burner.
Even if Child's undercover activites didn't extend farther than the search for The Missing Stick Of Butter I Know I Put In This Refrigerator, her humor, vitality, and culinary magic will always be with us.
See Julia Child's impressive list of cookbooks at amazon.com
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